Forwarded message from [greaves@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com (Mark Greaves)] sent originally on Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:19:39 -0800 (PST): : Call for Papers : : Workshop on Agent Communication : : to be held preceding Autonomous Agents 2000 : Barcelona, Spain : June 3, 2000 : : http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/ac2000/ : : OBJECTIVES : : This workshop builds on two successful predecessors: : : 1. The Agents-99 workshop on Specifying and Implementing Conver- : sation Policies (http://www.boeing.com/special/agents99/), and : 2. The IJCAI-99 workshop on Agent Communication Languages: : From Speech Acts to Conversations (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/acl99/) : : For this year, we are going to combine these workshops into a single one : at Agents 2000. We invite papers centered around the following issues : in agent communication: : : * New approaches to the semantics of agent communication, focusing : on the link between the semantics of individual messages and the : compositional semantics of agent conversations; and : : * Recent work in the specification and implementation of agent con- : versation policies, including the formal connections between poli- : cies, ACL semantics, and agent tasks. : : Over the past year or two, it has become increasingly clear that deployed : agent systems tend to take a "conversation-centric" view of agent inter- : action, rather than a "semantics-centric" view. That is, an agent's actual : use of an ACL is almost always structured around identifying and sup- : porting a known set of conversational interactions with other agents, : rather than dynamically planning the semantically coherent use of arbi- : trary ACL expressions. This has prompted a renewed interest in agent : conversation policies (CPs) and their relationship to the semantics of the : ACL messages that compose them. Therefore, in addition to the two : core topics listed above, we also solicit papers which address related : topics: : : * Formalisms for CPs, including how these formalisms are related to : the semantic theory, and the types of properties which can be proved : from the formalisms. : : * Implementation of CPs in agent systems, including negotiating and : downloading CPs dynamically. : : * Ontologies and axiomatizations of CPs and their relationship with : ACL semantic and pragmatic theory, as well as the policy-driven use : of ontologies in ACL content. : : WORKSHOP FORMAT : : The format of the workshop will be a combination of contributed pres- : entations and discussion among the participants. There will be a small : number of sessions, each focused on a specific topic selected among the : ones listed above, each including a set of brief presentations and ample : opportunities for discussion. : : SUBMISSIONS : : We encourage participants to submit a short paper (10 pages max), de- : scribing their work on one or more of the topics mentioned above. All : non-presenting participants will need to submit a one-page position : statement which presents their view on agent conversation policies rela- : tive to the workshop topics. We plan to post all accepted submissions : and position statements on the workshop's web site by 4/21/00, so that : participants may familiarize themselves with them in advance of the : workshop. Hard-copy submissions need to arrive by 3/17/00, and should : be mailed to: : : Mark Greaves : Mathematics and Computing Technology : The Boeing Company : P.O. Box 3707 MC 7L-43 : Seattle, WA 98124-2207 : USA : : Email submissions (standard postscript or MS Word) are strongly pre- : ferred, and should be sent by 3/17/00 to: : : mark.t.greaves@boeing.com : : All submissions must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete : mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address. Please : be aware that accepted papers will need to be in the ACM SIG proceed- : ings format, which can be found at: : : http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html : : All accepted submissions and position statements will be published in the : workshop proceedings. : : IMPORTANT DATES : : March 17, 2000 Papers due : March 31, 2000 Notification of acceptance : April 14, 2000 Final copies of papers due for workshop proceedings; : position statements due : June 3, 2000 Workshop : : WORKSHOP LOCATION AND REGISTRATION : : The workshop will be held in the same location as Agents 2000. Consult : the main Agents 2000 web page (http://www.iiia.csic.es/agents2000) for : details. All workshop participants are required to register for the Agents : 2000 conference. Specific workshop registration will be handled through : the Agents 2000 registration process. : : ORGANIZING COMMITTEE : : Jeff Bradshaw, The Boeing Company : Brahim Chaib-draa, Universite Laval : Frank Dignum, Eindhoven University of Technology : Mark Greaves, The Boeing Company : : PROGRAM COMMITTEE : : J. Allwood (University of Goteborg, Sweden) : G. Arnold (Sun Microsystems, USA) : M. Barbuceanu (University of Toronto, Canada) : J. Bradshaw (Boeing, USA) : M. Calisti (EPFL, Switzerland) : B. Chaib-draa (Laval University, Canada) : P. Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA) : F. Dignum (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) : T. Finin (University of Maryland, USA) : M. Greaves (Boeing, USA) : A. Haddadi (Daimler Benz, Germany) : M. Klusch (DFKI, Germany) : R. Kremer (University of Calgary, Canada) : Y. Labrou (University of Maryland, USA) : A. Mamdani (Imperial College, UK) : J.-J. Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) : M. Nodine (MCC Austin, USA) : P. Noriega (INEGI, Mexico) : D. Sadek (France Telecom, France) : C. Sierra (AI Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain) : M. Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) : D. Steiner (Siemens AG, Germany) : D. Traum (University of Maryland, USA) : H. Weigand (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) : M. Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, England)

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